I sincerely agree with your take on this.

"...career sets a basic enough understanding of capacity.." . msharmony. Thanks for this thoughtful quote.

"...career sets a basic enough understanding of capacity.." .msharmony. Thanks for this thoughtful quote.

You have accomplished what you set out to do and that is differentiate people by responses as the more educated tend to approve of someone seeking a modicum of intellectual acumen and acknowledging the rube factor of people who are not comfortable or conversant with others more cognitively fascile.Glad you made a request as its a breath of fresh air in a sea of inarticulate and struggling people to seek companions,friendship and love...

So you're saying there should be a place on our Mingle profile where we state how long the bus was that we rode to school?

I so not agree with what most say.
Being higher educated means you have an interest in learning which usually means you are also eager to learn at life's university. Someone who doesn't care or doesn't have the brain to study (don't mean judgement, just factual), will be happy to work a simple job, peel the potatoes and raise a family and not think about deeper things in life.
Nothing wrong with that, but it won't match with someone who does have higher education and interest in deeper subjects, the meaning of life, the universe and everything.
Sure there are exceptions to the rule, but education is a good indication as far as I'm concerned.

The argument that you have a whole profile is lame. It means you could get rid of the other fields too (age, gender, nationality, profession, body type etc etc)

@ Paintecards: One could fill out whatever one wants? Yes, goes for the rest as well.

Really surprised that no one seems to see the added value of an education field.

I see what you guys are saying about wanting an option like that and that is fine.

I do however have a problem with how far a person traveled in school to be relevant to ones aptitude or love for learning.

I for one dropped out of school because I was sincerely bored with it. I went strait to work even though I had passed college entrance exams at the age of fifteen. School just wasn't and still isn't for me. I had always learned on my own outside of the classroom so much so I could skip and entire week, month or whatever sit down take the test on a given subject and pass it easily. I will always see myself as a student of life who tries to learn something new everyday. I never want to stop learning because when I do I believe it'll be time to get off of the right side of the grass and start pushing up daisies. I did take my G.E.D at twenty-seven without studying or brushing up on anything. I hadn't even seen the inside of a classroom for more than a decade and I still aced it and finished in half the time as the rest of those taking it with me.

Let's hear it for elitism!

Just because someone has a degree does not mean they have more desire for learning. There are people that would love to further their education but life interfered.

Everyone has reasons. I love to learn but I hate sitting in a classroom. Not to mention I had a child and other family issues that came first.

My grandpa is.highly educated. A math genius but not a drop of common sense. Same with my ex husband.

There should be a place where we list our IQ.
If it's too low or too high then the system kicks you off mingle.

Asking education level or IQ has little meaning because 1) education is NOT synonymous with schooling or degrees, 2) IQ indicates ability to learn or adapt quickly -- and says nothing about how those abilities are applied in the real world, 3) people can misrepresent just as they do with body style description and with outdated photos

Those who value intelligence and education can learn about such things based upon what a person writes in profile or in personal communication.

A lot of people say education isn't connected to intelligence.
I think it is connected. While it's true that the uneducated can be intelligent and the educated can be unwise, on average the educated are smarter than the uneducated. Intelligent people are more likely to go to college and more likely to complete college.

Higher education is also a sign of higher motivation. People who complete college on average have more drive and determination.

You can find examples to counter my argument but those are outliers.

Intelligence: capacity for learning, reasoning, understanding, and similar forms of mental activity; aptitude in grasping truths, relationships, facts, meanings, etc

Education: imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment

Schooling: instruction, education, or training, especially when received in a school

The three terms are only somewhat related but are often taken to be nearly synonymous. Many are intelligent without being schooled (degreed) or educated (informed). Many are schooled with below average intelligence and without general knowledge, reasoning, judgment. Some are educated (informed) without schooling and with "average��" intelligence (as measured by IQ tests).

lol, I knew that was coming,,

lets skip the 'documents' that show you attended a building for an extended time at an extended cost,, that really doesn't say anything other than that you wanted to have a competitive chance to make a living

I went to college, and of course there were those interested in 'deeper learning' but mostly I saw a lot interested in being away from home and having the independence to do what they want to do

educational attainment is not a good predictor of actual 'intelligence',,, its an indicator of the ambition to meet the status quo,,,

> that really doesn't say anything other than that you wanted to have a competitive chance to make a living�

I won't speak for others but in my case it said I was dedicated, driven, focused and willing to work my butt off to obtain a goal. I am not going to accept the argument that the work I put into getting my Master's Degree doesn't mean anything.


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To those who think education is meaningless. The next time you need a lawyer or a doctor, just call the uneducated, but "smart" guy who lives down the street. I'm sure he'll be able to help you with your problem at a much cheaper rate because he won't have an unnecessary student loan to pay off.

don't get me wrong,, of course education is not meaningless, it is a determining factor (as is obvious from this thread) of how we are viewed in the world and the opportunities people are willing to give us,,,

so yes, a doctor should be educated in medicine, and a lawyer should be educated in law

but its nothing to do with being a 'deeper' person,, just to do with being more interested in that subject,,,,

and nothing to do with what intelligence one has outside of medicine, or law,,, life is full of many types of knowledge that are none less important than the other

I just don't think knowing someone is a doctor means there is going to be compatibility on any level with someone else who lets say is a lawyer,,,

is the medical person who knows medicine without having obtained a degree, less or more intelligent than the one who acquired it through years of financial investment and 'formal' education

is the day care provider who could only afford an associate going to be less intelligent than the second grade teacher who was able to afford a bachelors?



they both were ambitious in purusing a professional career, and if that singular pursuit is enough to make or break the compatibility of two people,, so be it

but , for me, compatibility depends upon much 'deeper' things than what someone pursued, or for how long, in college

Did you mean "Education Background Information"?

You're lucky a trapped door didn't open up and spit you out for that alone

Apples and oranges

The only problem I have with the idea is you can lie about it, you might find a guy/woman who claims they have a college degree because it sounds good and it turns out they barely finished high school.

I don't think it's worth the effort to add a field when someone could just add that info to their profile, if they wanted it known. I list myself as a graduate student on my profile, so anyone knows I'm in college. I don't know, just seems like a tiny thing to waste time on.

I guess I'm also a bit biased; I've spent most of my life around "educated" people and I find them to usually be elitist, intolerant, close-minded, snotty people, so I'd probably shy away from some guy who raved about his education, not be attracted to him for it. But I'm weird like that.